#kotlc Grizel

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

I just know Grizel cares so much about Fitz.

She's known this boy since he was 14 (?) and she's watching him grow up.

She's hung around him for years, day and night.

She's eavesdropped on his conversations, and she was there for all of the aftermath of Alvar's betrayal.

She watched his world fall out from beneath his feet first hand. She heard the whispers that followed him everywhere he went. She watched his shoulders fall.

She probably watched him bake treats for his friends. She probably watched him cry and grieve. She probably dragged him out of his bed and showed him how to work out to get out of his head. She probably reminds him to eat, and to get some vitamin D. She probably listens to him pace his bedroom well into the night. She probably listens to him talk to Mr. Snuggles when he's really overwhelmed and just needs a friend who won't judge him.

She'd die for this little sad, short-tempered baby who has done nothing wrong ever in his entire life. And her heart aches for him. For the way he can be surrounded by people, but still be so lonely.

She probably knows him better than most people just off of observation alone.

idk man. we never talk about it. and the friendship angst/potential is immaculate.

[purplesoup-lad-le]

Rah rah Grizel for the sexywoman comp of 2025!

@loveution @myfairkatiecat @radicaltorque @camelspit @sophiefostersno1stan @bleu-d-encre-poudre-d-etoiles @florida-preposterously @aurenflare

[alwaysakookie]

Could you make a sandor×grizel art😸

-anon with rizz

They finally got to dance :)

[anonymous-kotlc-thoughts]

Will never stop thinking about how Grizel is probably the first and only person who has helped Fitz with learning how to actually deal with his emotions

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[kale-of-the-forbidden-cities]

sandor and grizel are actually one of my favorite canon couples

[telugu-girl-13]

guys how did i forget to comment on the sandor-grizel kiss because I LOVE THEM SMMM

[frizzle-mcshizzle]

Sandor and Grizel where childhood friends in cannon, and i’m convinced they actually dated before cannon, because that’s what it sounded like in their little act interaction in the books.

i think that Sandor had someone in his family die and they left a spouse and child behind and he didn’t want to hurt Grizel in that way, so he broke up with her to protect her. but Grizel didn’t give up on their relationship for years and that’s why she followed him to the elven gaurd

[er-idkhehe]

Sandor X Grizels ship name is GobGob you can’t change my mind.

goblin 4 goblin help

[randomity-101]

XD Now I can't get it out of my head. I'm definitely doing this.

someone write a fic where sandor and grizel get married and sophie flower girls

[theunmappedstar]

Grizel: I’m surprised. You said you can’t dance.

Sandor: I said I didn’t. I never said I couldn’t.

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

need a scene where someone in the friend group brings up Fitz stopping pressing buttons as some sort of justification that supposedly evens the playing field between the brothers

and he's just so stricken by it that he can't even come up with a response

and Biana has had enough and just goes: "No one seems to remember that I was there too. I could have stopped him."

record scratch. silence.

let he defend her brother Shannon. let them be siblings. ride or die. let them understand aspects of each other that no one else ever could. let them let them let them

[doodle-do-wop]

Hey I absolutely love you're drawings! Could you draw Sandor and Grizel (Only if you want to ofc)

Sure!! Not sure if you're the same anon as the past Sandor and Grizel drawing but here you go! (sorry this took so long)

zooms under cut

I've drawn Sandor like thrice so looking at my old concepts for goblins was kind of fun! Especially with the description in the books saying their tough skin is like an armadillo and stuff. (if its not clear Grizle is the one with the broken nose and 'ponytail', Sandor is the grumpy one)

also yes of course Soph and Sandor have matching bracelets, let this poor girl be friends with her bodyguard

Sophie is so teeny tiny compared to these tall ass goblins. Look at her arm compared to Sandor's! Grizle's bicep is the size of her head!!

I'm not sure what Sandor is nagging on her about but whatever it is he's probably well in his bodyguard rights to say no

[bookwyrminspiration]

wait, does Shannon refer to them as males and females? I hadn't noticed.

She didn't used to, but around book 5-6 that changed. Here's the first examples that come to mind, though this, of course, isn't exhaustive

page 35 of Nightfall, when we first meet Livvy:

Page 689 of Nightfall when we meet Vespera:

Page 31 of Flashback, when we meet Fallon:

Page 34 of Flashback, when we meet Luzia:

Page 130 of Flashback, in reference to Grizel, and my personal most-hated:

Compare all this to how Shannon wrote character introductions in book one.

Here's page 50 of book 1, when we meet Alden:

Here's page 57, where we meet Bronte, Kenric, and Oralie:

Here's 79, Quinlin's introduction:

Page 90, Tiergan's intro:

And page 96, Della's first appearance:

I know most of the male/female examples are female, and most of the book 1 intros are men, but that's just unfortunate data collection on my part. Shannon's not introducing men and women differently, as you can see with Fallon and Della's examples.

I think it's gotten a little better recently? In Unraveled people are referred to as women and men/guys. Though that could be because they're human, so I guess we'll have to see how it goes in book 10.

But anyway. This shift from men/women to male/female as the series progress has always personally bothered me. It's so blatantly just following the trend of popular fantasy books and does not work at all in the world Shannon's established--the only time it's ever relevant is when in Legacy in Keefe's memory Gisela tells her to take the letter and Fitz points out she said to a "man" instead of "elf"--which is something we had no precedent for. There's never been a distinction in language until that moment.

It's just all around really bad and icky and dehumanizing and I hate it. I'd like to return to the og "figure" and "elf" descriptions Shannon used to use. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[anonymous-kotlc-thoughts]

we need to give sandor and grizel a ship name D:

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[winwin17]

KOTLC Characters as Out of Context Quotes from My Life:

- "I don't wanna see you!" (Tam)

- "The cake! The cake! What about the cake!" (Linh)

- "Don't throw away the fish sticks!" (Amy)

- "Get in the friend bag!" (Rayni)

- "It sparkles at midnight!" (Biana)

- "Oooh! CHEESE!!" (Keefe)

- "I'm as hungry as six elephants!" (Alvar)

- "You STOLE IT!!" (Fintan)

- "I didn't know I had a face." (Ruy)

- "You're gonna burn my wee retinas!" (Ro)

- "It's just the dark, Louise." (Grizel)

- "I will hit you with my mop!" (Sophie)

- "This is my city! Get outta my city!" (Bronte)

- "Whoever talks first is an ugly baboon." (Mr. Forkle)

- "I wanna work at the pony show!" (Stina)

- "I'm NOT a sack of potatoes!" (Marella)